An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation ; with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders /by the late Thomas Rickman (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 86
ject-ing piece being left uncarved in themiddle between the volutes, as if for thecauliculi; these were probably painted.Capitals with this peculiar feature occurin numerous instances in work of the latter part of the eleventhcentury, as in the Chapel of the White Tower, London. Shobdon was given,… … North Transept, Winchester Cathe-dral, a.d. 1079—1093. k The design of these is so un-English, that more than one theoryhas been proposed to account for it.One notion is that the figures repre-sent Welshmen, but the history of theChurch shews that a certain Oliverde Merlemond, to whom the manor of…
